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extended free access -- message from site mgmt

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JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 31 Dec 2010 21:07

The site owners won't be posting this here, so I will.

From a reply at the Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/genesreunited

"thanks for your post. We appreciate that due to demand some members have experienced a slow site, so >>>> have left the site free until 9pm. I'm trying to understand the problem you are encountering and wondered if you could email me further details through [email protected] Thanks"

A reply to ONE person who was disappointed -- out of the dozens of people who had posted similar messages there.

And, like, the problem everyone was encountering wasn't about as obvious as the nose on their faces ...

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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 31 Dec 2010 21:11

Personally I was very surprised that I managed to get so many records (within the 2 hours & with my own internet connection going down at first) and was even more pleased with the extended time - it ran so much faster too.

I was quite impressed with the layout too - more user friendly than I imagined.

Going from my experience I have to say Thank you to GR.

(Edit: pity they didn't leave it that little bit longer - I'd just a few more to find ;) )

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 31 Dec 2010 21:16

I just did the math.

It's 4:11 pm my Canadian time, which is 9:11 pm UK/GR time.

So GR management posted the notice of the extended time at the Facebook page at 8:58 pm -- 2 minutes before the end of the extended time, which was over by the time I posted this.

Unbelievable.

I got a couple of search results right at the beginning of the free period.

One was a nothingness -- there *might* have been a Benjamin B birth 1755-1765 in overseas births post-1761, but there wasn't.

The other was a nonsense. A search for Reuben C born 1820-1830 produced an *exact match* of a death ................... in 1944.

I knew I didn't want to pay to access records at this site, and now I'm certain I don't, so this wasn't an entirely pointless waste of time. ;)

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